Medical Terminology / Unit 2 MedTerm 0097 short lesson, about 20 seconds
-graphy: Process of Recording
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The idea
The suffix graphy names the process of recording an image of the structure its root identifies.
In practice
Radiography is the process of making an x-ray image.
Where people slip
Three related suffixes name the process, the record, and the instrument.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
Builds on
Unlocks
- 0098-gram: The Record
- 0111Reading the -graphy, -gram, -graph Cluster
- 0112Capstone: Eight Terms Decoded by Suffix
- 0446Building Cardiovascular Terms
- 0709Building Urinary and Reproductive Terms
- 0916radi/o: Radiation or X-ray
- 0921Radiography
- 0935Reading One Root Across Three Fields
- 0936Capstone: Twelve Terms From Three Fields
- 0991Capstone: One Root Across Four Units
- 0996Capstone: Building Twelve Terms From Nothing
- 1000Capstone: The Whole System in One Term
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